On 06/08/03 22:08 (GMT+0200) pelibali apparently typed: Sorta the opposite of above, which seems likely to be off by up to 12 hours.
My mom uses a p2 system from 1998/99, running SuSE 8.2 Pro. Suddenly her e-mails started to arrive to me with a date from the past and seemingly the system clock works only, when the computer is turned ON (= is under electricity). I never had such symptom, but thought that when the CMOS battery is empty, the system clock is set to some stran- ge 1970-like time everytime the system is turned on.
Maybe I'm wrong, but would help if someone would confirm that the above symptom can be caused by (almost) empty mainboard-battery.
When the battery dies, all CMOS settings are lost, not just the date/time. When the battery voltage drops enough from old age, CMOS is preserved, but the clock gets slow. Most puters that vintage use a common 3v #2032 pancake lithium cell. I just bought a box of 12 of them, then checked all my systems and replaced those showing less than 3.0v, which was about 80% of them. New ones usually read around 3.2v on my digital multimeter. -- "Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up." Galatians 6:9 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/